The Schengen crisis in the framework of the Arab Spring

The Schengen crisis in the framework of the Arab Spring

Opinion piece (European Institute of the Mediterranean)
19 December 2012

The Schengen area – the EU's zone of passport-free travel, which benefits 650 million travellers annually –is in trouble. The most pressing concern is how to secure Greece's porous frontier with Turkey, the largest source of illegal immigration into the EU by land.